| Zhendong Wang (王震东) I am currently a final-year Ph.D. student at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), supervised by Prof. Houqiang Li and Prof. Wengang Zhou . Before that, I received my Bachelor degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2021. I collaborate closely with Dr. Jianmin Bao. My current research interests are computer vision and deep learning, especially visual generative models and image/video generation. Previously, my research focus was on low-level vision and deepfake detection. I have obtained 4,000+ citations according to Google Scholar, with the seminal work Uformer contributing 2,700+ citations, which is honored as one of the Most Influential Papers in CVPR 2022 by PaperDigest. Two of my first-author CVPR papers (DesignDiffusion, AltFreezing) are selected as oral presentations. I am expected to graduate in June 2026. I am open to opportunities for research scientist or engineering roles in Artificial Intelligence/Computer Vision. If you are interested in my experience, don’t hesitate to contact me. Email / Google Scholar / Github / CV |  |
 | EchoGen: Generating Visual Echoes in Any Scene via Feed-Forward Subject-Driven Auto-Regressive Model
Ruixiao Dong*, Zhendong Wang*, Keli Liu, Li Li, Ying Chen, Kai Li, Daowen Li, Houqiang Li
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
[paper] [code]
|  | DesignDiffusion: High-Quality Text-to-Design Image Generation with Diffusion Models
Zhendong Wang, Jianmin Bao, Shuyang Gu, Dong Chen, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
Oral paper (~0.7%)
[paper] [code]
|  | SmartEraser: Remove Anything from Images using Masked-Region Guidance
Longtao Jiang*, Zhendong Wang*, Jianmin Bao*, Wengang Zhou, Dongdong Chen, Lei Shi, Dong Chen, Houqiang Li
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
[paper] [code]
|  | DIRE for Diffusion-Generated Image Detection
Zhendong Wang*, Jianmin Bao*, Wengang Zhou, Weilun Wang, Hezhen Hu, Hong Chen, Houqiang Li
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
[paper] [code]
|  | AltFreezing for More General Video Face Forgery Detection
Zhendong Wang*, Jianmin Bao*, Wengang Zhou, Weilun Wang, Houqiang Li
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
Oral paper (~2.5%)
[paper] [code]
|  | Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration
Zhendong Wang, Xiaodong Cun, Jianmin Bao, Wengang Zhou, Jianzhuang Liu, Houqiang Li
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
PaperDigest Most Influential Papers in CVPR 2022
[paper] [code] | Research Experience
- [2025/07 ~ present] Alibaba, Alimama Group, Research Intern (Mentor: Tiezheng Ge).
- [2023/07 ~ 2024/06] Microsoft Research Asia, Vision Computing Group, Research Intern (Mentor: Jianmin Bao).
- [2020/08 ~ 2021/07] Noah's Ark Lab, Computer Vision Lab, Research Intern (Mentor: Jianzhuang Liu).
Awards and Honors
- First-class Postgraduate Academic Scholarship.
2021~2025 - Stars of Tomorrow Internship in MSRA (Top 10%).
2024 - National Scholarship (Highest honor for postgraduates in China).
2023 - Outstanding graduates of HIT.
2021 - First-class Undergraduate Academic Scholarship.
2017~2021 - National Scholarship (Highest honor for undergraduates in China).
2019 - First prize in Chinese Mathematics Competitions.
2019 - Second prize in ABU Robocon Robot Competitions.
2019 Academic Services
- Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, ICML, IJCAI, ACMMM.
- Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, IJCV, TIP, TMM, TCSVT.
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